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IoT is a really unsettling prospect. I was expecting a text dealing with this, but alas, mostly click-bait. the text is superficial ideological bickering which
by bakhy 12y ago
IoT is a really unsettling prospect. I was expecting a text dealing with this, but alas, mostly click-bait. the text is superficial ideological bickering which takes IoT for granted. IoT is simply here, it seems. the text deals only with what kind of IoT you should like.
it's only a question, as one commenter here put it, of our psychological adaptation to it. like cows in a super-high-tech milking farm, we should adapt to being monitored and analyzed by devices 24/7. furthermore, according to the text here, the most important aspect of this might just be the need to centralize all the collected data! crazy.
not to mention, i still haven't seen anything other than gimmicks and empty talk about ubiquitous devices. which devices? what is the actual use here? you can change your thermostat temperature before getting home? good going for Nest and their product, it certainly seems useful, but there is no revolution here, other than perhaps a completely revolutionary loss in privacy.
and BTW it all sounds like some kind of bubble. like the need to find a way to sell more new stuff has recently gone into over-hype.
- knowaveragejoe 12y agoIt sounds like you're failing to grasp the true implications here. Sure, there is loss of privacy, but there is massive efficiency to be gained for both businesses and end consumers. As with everything we will have to make tradeoffs, and as time goes on I hope privacy considerations will continue play a larger role in the debate.
- bakhy 12y agoi don't know why you think i failed to grasp that. there are benefits, i agree. i just don't see any such great or important benefits which would justify this almost complete destruction of the notion of privacy. can you give me some examples? PS there's a lot more to life than efficiency ;)
- knowaveragejoe 12y agoYou're using the negative connotation of efficiency that should really be discarded. It doesn't only mean "more, faster, because higher profits, work like crazy until you die", that notion is extremely narrow for what efficiency actually means. Efficiency saves lives right now. It is also what will enable us to save our species from the destruction of the planet. In a world as populated as ours, efficiency is by and large what the very concept of sustainability itself consists of.
- bakhy 12y agoyou are again projecting some notions of yours into me, than correcting your own projections as if i actually said that. if you would be interested in having a conversation, we might try that. till then, buh-bye.